Patenting for Inventors

In this episode I go through how to respond to obviousness rejections by using secondary considerations. Secondary considerations for non-obviousness include reasons for patentability, including: commercial success, long felt but unsolved need, failure of others, skepticism by experts, praise by others, teaching away, copying by others, synergistic effects, inoperative combination, and lack of suggestion.

If the the Patent Office sends you an rejection based on obviousness, how should you respond? If the combination of previous products still don't have all the the features of your invention, then you might want to consider using the All Limitations/Elements Test in your response. Listen to find out how!

In this episode I introduce obviousness rejection responses. Your application can be rejected for lack of utility, lack of novelty, and obviousness. If the examiner says that your invention is obvious, how are you supposed to respond? This will be the first of likely many episodes of how to respond to these kinds of rejections.

In this episode I go through how to respond to what is called a Section 102, novelty, or anticipation rejection. All of these terms mean that the examiner believes that your invention already exists in the public, so you can't get a patent on it. Is all hope lost? Not necessarily! Listen to this episode to find out how to respond to such a rejection.

In this episode I go over the basics of how to prepare a response to an Office Action, such as the formatting, introduction, and conclusion.

In this episode I go over the three general options you have for responding to an Office Action, which are: abandon, amend, or argue.

In this episode I go over the basics of how to read an Office Action, and the steps you should take when you receive an Office Action.

In this episode I go through what patent objections are, how they differ from patent rejections and I talk about the different types of objections and how to overcome them.

In this episode I go over the basics of the different types of patent rejections. The main rejections you will see are called: 101 (subject matter), 102 (anticipation), 103 (obviousness), and 112 (specification and distinctly claiming subject matter) rejections. Learn what they and then in later episodes I'll cover how to handle them.

In this episode I go over the details of paying patent maintenance fees. Your patent will generally last 20 years from your filing date, but you have to pay fees at the 3.5, 7.5 and 11.5 year marks from your date of grant. I go over these details and others in this episode.